Improvement in toy pistols



c. A. BAILEY.

TOY PISTOL.

Patented. May 22,1877,

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ITN S E? 2 2% N.PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAFHE UNITED STATES CHARLES A. BAILEY, OF COBALT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY PISTOLS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,094, dated May 22, 1877; application filed January 20, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BAILEY, of Cobalt, in the county of Middlesex, and in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Pistols; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of a toy pistol having one or more bells attached that will make a noise without the use of an explosive compound, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view, and Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section.

A represents the butt or handle, at the front of which is a disk, H, and extending forward of the same at the center is an arm, a, having a screw-tenon, as shown.

B represents the barrel, connected to which is a gong-bell, C. The latter has a screwopening, into which the screw-tenon takes for connecting the parts together. The arm a is provided with a vertical slot, through which is passed a vertically-moving spring-clapper, E.

D is the trigger, made L-shaped, as seen in Fig. 2, and pivoted to the butt with one arm connected to the lower end of the spring-clapper E. This clapper is held up by the spring. By pulling on the trigger it is brought down, and as the spring recoils causes the head of the clapper to strike the gong and sound an alarm.

Two or more gongs or bells can be attached and operated in a similar manner to imitate chimes of bells.

The toy thus made is perfectly safe in the hands of children and very amusing.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A toy pistol provided with one or more bells that are caused to ring by the trigger, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of the butt A, having arm a and screw-tenon, the barrel B, with gong or bell C, the spring-clapper E, and trigger D, all constructed substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. 7 y In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of January, 1877.

CHAS. A. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

O. H. SELDEN, JOSIAH AoKLEY. 

